Re: 5.2.1 Unbootable on my Hardware

From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy_at_siliconlandmark.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 06:10:56 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Doug White wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Nick Nelson wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've recently tried to install 5.2.1 on a new system of mine, basically
> > it's an AMD 3000XP, Radeon9800 Pro, Corsair XMS RAM, Lanparty Ultra II
> > (http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=1524)
> > with a SerialATA (Marvell 88i8030 chip), I have one SerialATA drive and
> > one IDE drive.
>
> The Marvell chip is the SATA bridge, not the ATA controller.  Its probably
> the standard built-in nForce 2 ATA controller.
>
> > I've tried booting off both the SATA drive and the IDE drive, each time
> > it gets to:
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> > lo0: bpf attached
> >
> > ---
> >
> > and stops..I ran it with logging to get that much information. I've
> > unplugged the SerialATA, which I thought would resolve it, but didn't.
> > Any ideas?
>
> Hm ... try booting without ACPI, and if that doesn't work, try safe mode.
> Looks like the controller is locking up or something...

This hang could be ULE-related.

I'm saying this because it's the exact same thing that I see when I try a
ULE kernel on my Dual Athlon 2000+ MP running on a Asus A7M266-D using
regular ATA133 disks.  Luckily, it's been tracking current since before
the switchover, so I run a custom generic with 4BSD in it and everything
works fine.

I wish I could offer more debugging information such a verbose boot or a
ddb ps when it hangs but I'm swamped with work from my job and cannot
seem to find the time to debug such problems.

My suggestion to Nick: Try booting an older release (5.1, maybe?) and
cvsup from there.

Regards,
Andy

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >
Received on Sun Mar 07 2004 - 02:11:11 UTC

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